Russian attacks kill six and injure 27 civilians across three Ukrainian oblasts

Six people were killed and 27 injured in Russian attacks on Donetsk, Kharkiv and Kherson oblasts on 20 March.

Source: Donetsk Oblast Military Administration; Kharkiv Oblast Military Administration; Kherson Oblast Military Administration

Details: In Donetsk Oblast, Russian forces killed five residents: three in Drobysheve and two in Oleksiievo-Druzhkivka.

Another 14 people were injured in the oblast over the past day: five in Mykolaivka, four in Oleksiievo-Druzhkivka, and one in each of Drobysheve, Kostiantynivka, Druzhkivka, Raihorodok and Chernihivka.

In Kherson Oblast, Russian troops struck social infrastructure and residential areas, damaging a high-rise building and seven houses. Office buildings and a gas pipeline were also hit.

One person was killed and three were injured as a result of the attack.

In Kharkiv Oblast, ten people were injured, including a child.

In Izium, two men aged 67 and 70, two women aged 74 and 50 and a 14-year-old girl were injured. In Oskil, a 77-year-old man and a 75-year-old woman suffered acute stress reactions. In Chuhuiv, a 45-year-old man was injured. In Kivsharivka, Kupiansk hromada, a 73-year-old woman was injured, while in Ukrainske, Vovchansk hromada, a 50-year-old man was injured. [A hromada is an administrative unit designating a village, several villages, or a town, and their adjacent territories – ed.]

Additionally, in Semenivka, Shevchenkove hromada, a 68-year-old man was killed instantly when an unidentified device exploded, and a 58-year-old woman who had been injured later died in hospital.

Background: On 21 March, a Russian drone strike in Zaporizhzhia destroyed a house where a family lived – both parents were killed.

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